Lead Veterinary Technician

South Maui Animal Clinic is seeking a Lead Veterinary Technician to join their team!

Our clinic treats dogs and cats, along with exotic and avian species!

We invest heavily in our employees with many opportunities for growth and development within the hospital and Thrive Pet Healthcare! We offer a 4 day work week and outstanding benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance, life insurance, paid time off, continuing education, generous pet discounts and much more!

Job Summary:
The Lead Veterinary Technician provides guidance, trains, supervises and assists other technicians and assistants to plan, coordinate and perform a variety of duties concerned with animal health and client education, and to promote greater efficiency by relieving veterinarians of technical work and administrative detail at South Maui Animal Clinic. This position also encompasses all the duties of the veterinary technician.

Our Ideal Candidate:

Exercises considerable judgment in managing all technical staff, ensuring a high quantity and quality of patient care and medical support to veterinarians.
Act as a role model in demonstrating hospital values
Collaborate with the medical director, practice manager, associate veterinarians, and/or other leads to foster teamwork and facilitate a productive, professional working environment.
Demonstrate leadership characteristics
Display a commitment to developing both supervisory and staff's skills
Maintain regular, reliable, and flexible attendance
Understands and consistently applies policies and practices.

Responsibilities:

Animal Handling
Pre- and post-operative patient care
Creating and presenting financial options and estimates
Accurately entering service charges into client processing database
Extensive client interaction
Preparing medications
Taking X-Rays of animals
Administering medications, vaccines, and treatments prescribed by our in-house veterinarians.
Drawing blood samples for testing

Qualifications:

Veterinary Technician experience required
Supervisory experience preferred
Willing to train and support tech team
Skills – Proven leadership and communications skills, exceptional customer service

We look forward to meeting you! Apply today!

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